Why can't American carp eat?
Fundamentally speaking, it is the responsibility of Americans that Asian carp cause disasters in the United States. I don't know who came up with the bad idea of cleaning the algae in the catfish pond with Asian carp. As a result, these guys fled from the farm to the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Because of its amazing fertility and no natural enemies, Americans are completely frightened. They decided to spend $654.38+08 billion to build a dam in 25 years to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes.
But why do Americans prefer poison and explosives to eating these invaders?
They actually said,? Asian carp have too many thorns, and the meat is fishy? .
It seems necessary to know that people in western countries, led by the United States, usually eat carp?
Scientists believe that carp originated in Asia, widely lived in rivers in Eurasia, and was introduced to America.
It seems that carp has existed in the east and west as an ornamental fish since the beginning of civilization. For example, in ancient Rome, there was a record of building ponds to admire carp, and in East Asia, there was a long culture of worshipping carp. Countries that can appreciate the delicious carp and regard it as a traditional food are rare in the vast Eurasia.
According to the known western literature, the first westerner to eat carp was Franciscan missionary Guillaume de Rubruquis recorded in China's history books. Guillaume de Rubru Quiz? . According to Guillaume de Rubruquez's Travels to the East, he was sent to the Mongolian Empire by Louis IX, the French king, and met Mongolian Khan Mungo in Hala and Lincheng. 1253 On Christmas Day, Mongo Khan treated him to a Christmas dinner, including carp.
Although Guillaume de Rubru quis did not elaborate on the method of carp and fish in that big meal, later historians can be sure that Guillaume de Rubru quis and other missionaries who visited the Mongolian Empire brought back the method of cooking carp to Europe and made carp a necessary food for Christmas dinners in many European countries.
In Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, many people still buy a live carp to take home two or three days before Christmas and put it in the bathtub. On Christmas Eve, many Czech families will cook several dishes with live-killed carp: boil the fish head and water into thick soup, mix fried fish pieces with potatoes to make salad, or cook fish pieces with black soy sauce. Of course, there are also Czech families who put carp that have been kept for a few days back into the river or pond after Christmas (usually before the New Year).
Slovakia's Christmas carp dishes are similar to those of Czechs, but they prefer cooking fish to frying fish.
In the coastal areas of Prespa Lake bordering Greece, Albania and the Republic of Macedonia, eating fried carp on summer picnics is very popular.
However, if we carefully explore the carp in western recipes, we can find that most of these recipes come from Slavic peoples and Jews. Further research on these recipes shows that even Europeans who like to eat carp mostly include boneless. In other words, such a time-consuming and laborious carp dish can't be the home-cooked dish you usually want to eat. Although the complicated technology brings a sense of ceremony, it also leads to the inability to popularize carp dishes in a wider range.
At the same time, it should be pointed out that most American immigrants are not from Central and Eastern European countries. Although these people brought their own national delicacies, they did not really affect the descendants of other immigrants in this melting pot.
Of course, for hundreds of years, many countries in western Europe have a tradition of carp fishing, which has also spread to the United States with the tide of immigration.
Scholars who study Chinese and western food culture point out that a key reason why westerners don't like freshwater fish is the difference between Chinese and western tableware. It is difficult to eat freshwater fish such as carp gracefully with knives and forks as tableware. Therefore, the cooking of fish in western food needs to be boned to the greatest extent to facilitate the use of knives and forks, as well as frying, soft frying and boiling. Or simply cold dishes such as raw mix and smoked. Obviously, marine fish with fewer bone spurs are more suitable for the above cooking methods than freshwater fish.
Most of the fish steaks available in American supermarkets are already processed. From the operator's point of view, the cost of removing clean carp bones for resale is too high, and once consumers get stuck eating fish bones, the possible lawsuit will be huge.
Looking at the spectacular carp recipes in Chinese food, according to American taste habits, sweet and sour carp and beer carp may be the first intellectual property projects transferred to the United States. However, some local improvements are needed, and fish heads, fish tails and fishbones naturally need to be disposed of in advance. Shanghai smoked fish may also be a good choice for Americans to solve carp.
An American once proposed to export carp to China, but in China, carp does not belong to high-grade seafood. Besides, there are fish ponds everywhere. If American companies do this business, they will definitely lose to grandma's family. Moreover, people in China have no habit of eating canned fish.
It can only be a funny joke to send China's army of foodies to the United States to solve the carp crisis on the spot.
Fortunately, it is reported that Americans are trying to eat carp seeds. There is a tradition of eating caviar in the west, and carp spawn a lot. This may be a move by the American people to give carp radical wages.
Why do Asian carp grow wildly in America? It is understood that in the 1970s, in order to purify water bodies, the US government imported about 8 kinds of Asian fish from Southeast Asia, including bighead carp, silver carp and grass carp, and put them into some aquaculture lakes in the south. 10 years later, the lake flooded, and these Asian carp fled to the wild and began to breed in large numbers. ? Asian carp? Eat everything, and you can eat aquatic plants and plankton 40% of your body weight every day. Some of them can grow to 4 feet (about 1.2 meters) long and weigh 100 pounds (about 45.4 kilograms). These intruders? Asian carp? Competing with primitive fish for food and space poses a threat to the American ecosystem. According to an earlier study, Asian carp in the United States are flooded, the most representative being the St. Daski River in Ohio and a tributary of Lake Erie. Some data are even more sensational: in some rivers in the United States, the number of Asian carp has accounted for 90% of the total number of fish. ? Asian carp? The American people are worried about the flood, but the businesswomen in China have found great business opportunities in it. When she learned that there are few wild fish in Chinese mainland, and this product is delicious and healthy, she built a factory to export Asian carp to China, and now the sales volume has become the first in the United States.
Why don't Americans just eat Asian carp?
Statement 1: Freshwater fish has a strong earthy smell.
There are not a few people who hold this view. Many websites are analyzing it at length and looking for various experts. The argument is that the smell of freshwater fish is heavier than that of marine fish, because Americans don't like to use all kinds of things like onions, ginger, garlic, star anise, coriander and tsaoko as seasonings. Of course, when these things are served together, you will definitely get a delicious pot of stewed fish head soup, but the point is that Americans will not eat it.
This statement is actually easy to break. In fact, Americans don't eat freshwater fish at all, at least catfish and tilapia. Anyone who knows something about fish knows that Egyptian horn fish is really bad to eat, and the meat quality of tilapia is even worse than that of crucian carp. I'm afraid the earthy smell of these two kinds of fish is worse than that of the four major domestic fish. It is not true that Americans don't eat Asian carp because of its earthy smell.
Statement 2: Americans have made laws not to eat freshwater fish.
This statement is rare, so it is necessary to popularize it. It is said that the 1920s-40s was a crucial period for the United States to rely on electricity to develop its heavy industry, thus becoming a world superpower in one fell swoop. Therefore, the pollution caused by American industry during this period is unprecedented. Not only is the air filled with the pungent smell of gasoline, but also heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and mercury are deposited in rivers and lakes. Many years later, the aquatic life in fresh water was seriously polluted, so the US Congress legislated to prohibit people from preying on fish in fresh water. Even now, under effective governance, the United States has restored green mountains and green waters, but the habit of people not eating freshwater fish has also formed.
We won't refute the loopholes in this statement. Just saying that American legislation prohibits people from preying on freshwater fish violates a series of free and equal spirits advocated by the United States, and even if the law is partially established, it is unlikely that such a law that directly controls people's mouths will exist in the United States. Of course, if anyone can find that a similar law has been enacted somewhere in the United States, it is extremely rare and not representative.
Statement 3 Freshwater fish are too expensive.
It is hypocritical for a country whose per capita income is almost 0/0 times that of China/KLOC, but the price of gasoline is less than half that of China. In fact, people who have been to the United States know that the prices of most goods in the United States are cheaper than those in China, especially daily necessities, food and other necessities. And in a country where rivers, lakes and seas are almost filled with Asian carp, I'm afraid no one will believe that freshwater fish are expensive.
Statement 4 Freshwater fish contain parasites.
The premise of this statement is the eating habits of Europeans and Americans. Compared with the traditional diet in China, one big drawback is that they like to eat half-baked food.
There are only a handful of things eaten raw in Chinese food, and many things have to be cooked to the point where you can't see what the raw materials are, while the cooking of freshwater fish has no such worry. In fact, freshwater fish do contain more parasites than marine fish, including tapeworms, sparganium, liver flukes and so on. Chinese food is cooked above 100℃, and the time of hot pot and steaming is often more than ten minutes, so it is basically impossible for parasites to survive after treatment (protein begins to denature at 56℃, and the cooking temperature of Chinese food generally exceeds this temperature). The common cases of infection with fish parasites in reports are often due to eating sashimi or raw frog meat, freshwater shrimps and crabs, etc. Thus, it seems reasonable that Americans don't eat freshwater fish because they have parasites.
But wait, don't marine fish have parasites?
Even in the salmon that Americans often eat, there are parasites, one of which is called? Anise ether? This parasite is widely distributed and can be found in many marine fish, which is at risk of infection if eaten. On the other hand, if Americans knew there were parasites in freshwater fish, wouldn't they cook them before eating them?
This shows that this statement is not very tenable.